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The Fertile Crescent
The World and Its People, Chapter 3, Lesson 1
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| ziggurat | a temple tower |
| city-state | a city that governs itself and land around |
| scribe | one who copied information |
| Mesopotamia | "Land between the rivers" |
| Hammurabi | developed a code of laws |
| plow, sail,wheel | inventions from Mesopotamia |
| Gilgamesh | king of Uruk |
| priest and nobles | most important |
| epic poem | long poem telling a story |
| walls | provided protection for cities |
| dowry | woman's property brought to a marriage |
| alphabet | developed by the Phoenicians |
| The Persian Empire | defeated the cities of Mesopotamia |
| purple dye | made from sea shells |
| purple | color of royalty |
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